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NYT Finds Smart Folks for Obama, Media-Heckling Racists for Palin
The smart folks soberly support Barack Obama, while the ridiculous-looking rednecks love Sarah Palin. That's the subtext of the New York Times coverage on Wednesday. Jennifer Steinhauer was watching the second presidential debate with Obama fans at a Mexican restaurant in Des Moines, "Where He First Got Going, Cheering Obama On." Debate watchers at Dos Rios -- the sort of crowd that can cite…
WaPo Celebrates 'MoveOn Grows Up,' Palin-Trashing
Thursday’s Washington Post featured a splashy front-page Style section article headlined "MoveOn Grows Up." Reporter Jose Antonio Vargas lapped up MoveOn’s claims that it’s much more powerful and effective than the National Rifle Association, employed euphemisms to mask that MoveOn opposed any "violence" in response to the 9/11 attacks, and waited 18 long paragraphs to arrive at that "stumble"…
Cramer Defends Doom-and-Gloom 'Today' Remarks
An irate 'Mad Money' host calls advice to take cash out of market 'prudence.'
ABC Won't Air Gore's Global Warming Ad
'We Campaign' petition has 79,000 signatures; claims oil and coal industry ads as reason for not airing 'Repower America' TV spot.
Indiana: More Registered to Vote Than Eligible, Media Misses Story
If Barack Obama wins this election, there will be absolutely no doubt whatsoever that one of the things that will help push him over the top is massive Democrat vote fraud. It'll make the Democrats that stole the 1960 JFK/Nixon election for Kennedy look like pikers. One example of this massive vote fraud is in the amazing fact that there are now more registered voters in Indianapolis than are…
LATimes' Snead: Palin With 'Rifle' on Newsweek Cover... is it 'OK
Over at the L.A. Times' The Dish Rag blog, Elizabeth Snead wonders how Newsweek got Governor Sarah Palin to pose "with a rifle" for the cover of its next issue? Snead then reveals that it was not a new photo but an old one, that the Governor did not pose for the cover at all, and wonders if it is right for the magazine to use the photo as they did? I suppose Snead wasn't really too worried about…
NBC Excoriates McCain-Palin Fouls, Sees None from Obama-Biden
NBC anchor Brian Williams reported Wednesday night “there were no devastating or towering moments in the Obama/McCain debate in Nashville last night,” but he insisted, though neither ABC nor CBS mentioned them in their next day stories, “two moments from last night loomed large today.” Both, no surprise, were supposed insults from John McCain, but before getting to those, reporter Andrea Mitchell…
The Bad, the Good and the Ugly
Three breaking stories expose the developing cult of personality in America, and the harm being inflicted on our culture by the media.
Newsweek's Religion Reporter Again Features Former Bush-Supporting Pas
Lisa Miller apparently is trying to defuse criticism of Obama over Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Indecent Wire Service Pictures of Sarah Palin
Is this an appropriate picture of Gov. Sarah Palin published by Reuters Wednesday (h/t Ace)?Or how 'bout this one from the Associated Press also published Wednesday?
McCain-Palin on H&C Open Thread
Sean Hannity is interviewing John McCain and Sarah Palin on FNC beginning 9PM.How are they doing/did they do?
International Herald Tribune Website Joins Dinosaurs
The International Herald Tribune website--sister site of NYTimes.com--will soon shut down, citing "growth" opportunities. Forbes's James Erik Abels reports:The Times told staff in an internal e-mail Tuesday that the paper's flagship Web site will soon become host to news from sister paper the International Herald Tribune and that the Tribune's site will be shuttered. The move will require "hard…